Pirelli calendar 2017 may be an anti-Photoshop statement, but there's just 1 problem

For the past 50 years, the Pirelli calendar has stood as the fashion industry's annual celebration of female beauty, with sensuous black and white images of top models, celebrities and notable figures in various stages of undress.

But over the past year in particular, the Cal, as it's known, has seen a shift. For the 2016 Pirelli calendar, photographer Annie Leibovitz focused on women with spectacular careers, from Serena Williams to Patti Smith and Yoko Ono, rather than women with spectacular measurements. And now for the 2017 Pirelli calendar, which was revealed on Tuesday, it's all about celebrating raw, real beauty without any face or body retouching.

In a press release, the calendar's photographer, Peter Lindbergh, explained that he wanted "to create a calendar not around perfect bodies, but on sensitivity and emotion, stripping down to the very soul of the sitters, who thus become more nude than naked."

Among the women featured this year are movie stars like Uma Thurman, Rooney Mara, Penelope Cruz, Robin Wright, Léa Seydoux, Alicia Vikander, Helen Mirren, Nicole Kidman, Jessica Chastain, Charlotte Rampling, Lupita Nyong'o, Kate Winslet and Zhang Ziyi. There's also an appearance by one woman who isn't a movie star — Anastasia Ignatavor, who teaches at Moscow State University of International Relations.

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 02: Actress Nicole Kidman attends the 'Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology' Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Venturelli/FilmMagic)

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 16: Actress/producer Nicole Kidman attends 'The Family Fang' Premiere during 2016 Tribeca Film Festival at John Zuccotti Theater at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center on April 16, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic)

LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 21: Nicole Kidman with her Best Actress in a Play award for Photograph 51 during the 16th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards at The Prince of Wales Theatre on February 21, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 14: Actress Nicole Kidman attends the Opening Ceremony and the 'Grace of Monaco' premiere during the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2014 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Gisela Schober/Getty Images)

Actress Nicole Kidman, right, and actor Tim Roth pose on the red carpet for the opening ceremony and the screening of Grace of Monaco at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

This image released by Cannes Film Festival shows Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly in a scene from "Grace of Monaco." (AP Photo/Cannes Film Festival)

This image released by Cannes Film Festival shows Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly in a scene from "Grace of Monaco." (AP Photo/Cannes Film Festival)

Actress Nicole Kidman poses for photographers during a photo call for Grace of Monaco at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)

Actress Nicole Kidman during a press conference for the film Grace of Monaco at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

FILE - In this May 14, 2014 file photo, actress Nicole Kidman poses for photographers during a photo call for "Grace of Monaco" at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, in southern France. Kidman stars in a new thriller âBefore I Go To Sleep,â in U.S. theaters on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. The 47-year-old actress plays a woman whose memory is wiped clean every night, and begins questioning her husband and others as she tries to unravel what happened to her. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Chiwetel Ejiofor, left, and Nicole Kidman present the award for best foreign language film at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)

Actress Nicole Kidman poses for photographers upon arrival on the red carpet for the film Queen of the Desert at the 2015 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

Actress Nicole Kidman poses for photographers during a photo call for Grace of Monaco at the 67th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Australian actress Nicole Kidman arrives on the red carpet of Shanghai International Film Festival openning ceremony in Shanghai on June 14, 2014. Kidman, who is promoting 'Grace of Monaco' at the festival, received an award for outstanding contribution to film. Shanghai kicked off its annual film festival, a nine-day event with a heavy emphasis on Chinese cinema and a sprinkling of Hollywood stars promoting their latest works. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

This image released by Cannes Film Festival shows Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly in a scene from "Grace of Monaco." (AP Photo/Cannes Film Festival)

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"In a time when women are represented in the media and everywhere else, as ambassadors of perfection and youth, I thought it was important to remind everyone that there is a different beauty, more real and truthful and not manipulated by commercial or any other interests, a beauty which speaks about individuality, courage to be yourself and your own private sensibility," Lindbergh said in the release.

And indeed, as seen in the released images, the women's faces show lines and dimples and wrinkles. Their skin has creases. For a calendar that has so long now built a reputation on smooth and supple bodies, it's indeed refreshing.

But there's just one thing. Though this is possibly the first calendar sans airbrushing, it's also one that appears to include no plus-size women, or women above a size 8, it seems. For this supposed celebration of real, raw, un-retouched, true beauty, Pirelli decided to leave women above a certain size in the dust.

Yes, the calendar does include both women of color (though just a few) and women 50 and older, like Robin Wright and Charlotte Rampling, but leaving out women above a size 8 or 10 or 12 in this display of beauty makes the project feel less genuine.

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US actress Robin Wright poses for photographers on the red carpet ahead of the world premiere of the television series 'House of Cards - Season 3 Episode 1' in London on February 26, 2015. AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images)

Actors Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright pose for photographers upon arrival at the House of Cards season 3 World Premiere at the Empire Cinema in central London, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 10: Robin Wright and Ben Foster seen at LAX on January 10, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by GVK/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

NEW YORK, NY - JULY 22: Actress Robin Wright attends Lionsgate and Roadside Attraction's premiere of 'A Most Wanted Man' hosted by The Cinema Society and Montblanc at the Museum of Modern Art on July 22, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

That's especially true because even before the Pirelli calendar started getting its own woke makeover, it did feature plus-size women, like model Candice Huffine, who posed almost entirely nude for the 2014 issue. Last year, Serena Williams, a strong, fit and curvy woman, was a proud centerpiece, as well as Amy Schumer, who showed off the rolls on her belly in her shot.

But this time, there's no curvaceous women in sight. What that says is that although plus-size women in various stages of undress are Pirelli-appropriate, an un-retouched plus-size woman isn't yet. In order to be acceptable without airbrushing, you've got to tick the boxes of "thin" and "conventionally pretty" first.

So, although the images remain stunning and are indeed a testament to how beautiful women are regardless of if they've been manipulated by a computer, Pirelli seems to have missed the entire point of inclusive beauty.